Building Personal Software in Rust

For the past month or two I’ve been experimenting with building personal, self hosted software in Rust. The apps include anything from simple note taking, a wine tracker, image resizing, even a full blown RSS aggregator to replace FreshRSS. I’m not going to go into too much detail around the apps themselves, you can check them out here if you’re really interested. Instead, I want to use this post to talk about how I got here, why Rust, and the good, the bad, and the ugly of building personal software with AI. How I got here It all started with something I wanted: a code sharing app. In my line of work I often had to share snippets of code or ask someone to show me a quick piece of code to help them debug, and I really didn’t like the options out there. Many of them were riddled with ads or they just looked awful. I decided to build my own, as the basics of this app is simply a database with some CRUD operations. At the time I used Bun since it had everything I needed in one neat…